A list of my most frugal meals (each of these feed a family of three). These are all vegetarian (and all gluten free - so the pricing would be less for someone who can eat regular bread and pasta) and all $5.50 and under to feed three people. We aren’t light eaters, either! (I eat a ton!)
8. Fagiole soup with garlic bread - $16 - makes four meals (freeze three) - $4.00 each plus $1.50 for garlic bread = $5.50
7. Potato pancakes with applesauce and a salad - $5.50
6. Pasta with courgettes/zucchini and goat cheese - $5.16
5. Crash potatoes and a vegetable with a slice of cheese on the side - $5.00
4. Socca (chickpea flour pancake with courgettes/zucchini) with a side vegetable or salad - $4.95
3. Mexican scrambled eggs (with homemade tortilla slivers, salsa, green onion) and a salad/side vegetable - $4.79
2. Baked potatoes with cheese and broccoli - $4.43
1. Polenta with marinara and a vegetable - $3.20 - a savings STAR!
Later I will post our meals with chicken or turkey (starting at $8.25 for three, the least expensive is $5.63).
I would love to hear what your go-to meals are!
My Most Frugal Meals
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Home made soup or stew that use up all the left overs rely on ethnic styles and combination of spices.
Making bread is cheap, easy and a huge stress reliever with or without a breadmaker [cheap at Charity outlets]
Tortilla wraps combine anything you like for a quickie meal + it's portable if you need to get-out-the-door
Anything the kids will eat over a baked potato or 'stuffed potato.'
Rice or pasta make a good base for salad with added vegetable, meat or fish, tofu etc.
There are 72 easily available styles of pasta and roux based sauce + spices is faster to make than the 12-18 minutes it takes to boil pasta a le dente.
Casserole, if family balks, bake mixture in cupcake papers and even kids think it's wonderful
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I have the recipe:
http://www.cookstr.com/recipes/black-lentils
We'd love it if you share some of the actual recipes.
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Hoppin Jean: bulk blackeye peas & brown rice, maybe $2.50? Can of chopped tomatoes $1.25. Onion $.25. Various spices & cooking oil, just pennies for the amounts we use. Serve with a cheap veggie side such as carrots, $1.50. So about $5.80 to serve five (3 adults & 2 kids).
Pasta w/spicy garlic toss: Pasta $1, olive oil & spices pennies, garlic $.25, a cheap veggie such as zucchini $1.50? $2.75 to serve 5 and usually with a portion left over for someone's lunch.
Breakfast for dinner: Pancakes less than $1 for the amount of ingredients needed, fruit $2.50ish, maybe veggie sausage or bacon $3 on sale, or frozen hashbrowns, $2.50? $6.50 at most. (And if it's veggie bacon or hashbrowns, we wouldn't use the whole package so could use for other things.)
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